Improvement in boys  sleds



'J. Y. CHAPMAN. Boys Sled.

' No. 199,897. Patented Feb. 5,1878.

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N.FETER5. PHOTO-UTHOGRAFNER, WASHINGTON. D C.

'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN Y. CHAPMAN, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TOJOSEPH W. HOLMES.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOYS SLEDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,897, dated February5,1678; applicationfiled November 9, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN Y. CHAPMAN, of the city of Buffalo, in thecounty of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Sleighs, which improvements are fully set forthin the follow ing specification and accompanying drawing, in whichFigure 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2, a bottom view; and Fig. 3, asection through one of the runners in line X X, Fig. 1.

This invention is adapted for large or small sleighs; and it consists ofa sleigh provided with two metallic runners, of gas-pipe or othertubular material, formed so as to be united firmly together under thebottom of the sleigh by means of right and-left-hand screw-sleeves, aswill be more clearly hereinafter shown.

A represents the bottom of the sleigh; B, the runners, which are madetubular, as before mentioned, and bent to any proper form for asleigh-runner, as shown in Fig. 1, and the supporting parts 0 D bent atright angles thereto, so as to pass under the caps E (which hold themrigidly to the bottom A) into the right-and-left-hand screw-sleeves G,as shown in Fig. 2.

By this arrangement the sleigh may be made much lighter than heretofore,and still be sufficiently strong and more durable. It is easily andcheaply constructed. Its lightness renders it much more easy to handleand less liable to get out of order.

I claim as my invention-- A sleigh consisting of the bottom A, tubularrunners B, bent substantially as specified, and securely held togetherby the right-and-lefthand screw-sleeves G, and to the bottom A by thecaps E, substantially as described.

JNO. Y. CHAPMAN.

